Rev. Samuel WARD (FAMOUS PURITAN), * of Cambridge University

Rev. Samuel WARD (FAMOUS PURITAN), * of Cambridge University[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1577 - 1640  (63 years)

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  • Name Rev. Samuel WARD (FAMOUS PURITAN) 
    Suffix * of Cambridge University 
    Born 1577  Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 24 Apr 1640  Ipswich, Ipswich Borough, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Ipswich, Ipswich Borough, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I20162  Ancestrees
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 

    Father Rev. John WARD, *,   b. 1545-1550, Haverhill, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 1602, Haverhill, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Susan,   b. 1555, Redenhall, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F6289  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Deborah LEECH,   b. 1581, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1652, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 2 Jan 1605  Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. William WARD,   b. Abt 1603, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Aug 1687, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 84 years)
     2. Capt. Samuel WARD, *,   b. 1605, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Aug 1682, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     3. Nathaniel WARD,   b. Abt 1607, Stapleford, Essex, Eng. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Deceased
     4. Susan WARD,   b. Abt 1608, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. John WARD,   b. Oct 1609, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Abigail WARD,   b. Nov 1610, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1692, Norton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 81 years)
     7. Tobias WARD,   b. 1613, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. John WARD,   b. 1615-1616, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F3500  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Here is his excellent biography on Wikitree in 2022 provided by April Dauenhauer:

      "Samuel Ward, son of Rev. John and Susan (Unknown) Ward, was born about 1577 [estimated from a portrait of him in 1620 representing him to be 43 years old].[1] He was probably at Haverhill, Suffolk, England where his father was minister.[1]
      Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.
      1604: Vacated his fellowship to marry in 1604 Deborah Bolton of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, a widow.
      1607: B.D.
      Lecturer at Haverhill.
      Removed to Ipswich by 1604 (Says of himself on Dec 19, 1634, that he was preacher for the town of Ipswich for over thirty years).
      1620: His pension was 100 pounds annually by 1620.
      1622: Removed from prosecution to resume preaching.
      1622-05-31: Pardoned by the king.
      1623-08-06: Inhibited from preaching by a letter from the king.
      Imprisoned by Archbishop Laud of Canterbury for about two years.

      Family

      Samuel and Deborah Ward were the parents of three sons and a daughter:[2]
      Samuel Ward, s.p.
      Nathaniel Ward, Dr. of Divinity, Rector of Stapleford in Essex, England
      Joseph Ward, Rector of Badingham, Suffolk, England
      Deborah Ward, married to Richard Goltie, Rector of Framlingham, Suffolk, England
      Deborah (unknown) (Bolton) Ward, widow of Samuel Ward, was buried 22 Oct 1652 at Badingham, Suffolk, England, according to the entry in the parish records.[2]
      Debora Boulton; Leech(/Leeth); Dg of Leech relict of __ Bolton.

      Sources

      A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean, (Albany, J. Munsell, 1868), reproduced at Internet Archive.org, Appendix of family genealogy from work by Matthias Candler, M.A. from Cambridge, a Puritan and vicar of Coddenham in Suffolk in 1629. [Candler had a personal acquaintance with Samuel Ward and his brother Nathaniel, both Puritan ministers.]
      M.M. Knappen and John Cowart, eds, Seeking A Settled Heart_The 16th Century Diary of Puritan Richard Rogers (2007), page 42
      Wikisource (Samuel Ward 1577-1640). [1] [3]
      Wikipedia (Samuel Ward minister). [2] [4]
      See John Carter, Pastor of Bramford and Belstead, Suffolk.
      ↑ 1.0 1.1 A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean (1868), page 135
      ↑ 2.0 2.1 A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean, (1868), page 124-126
      ↑ Wikisource (Samuel Ward 1577-1640)
      ↑ Wikipedia (Samuel Ward minister)."

  • Sources 
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